| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To crust.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To cake or lump.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Present participle conjugation of the verb cake.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cake) | 1. Form a coat over.[Wordnet]. 2. To form into a cake, or mass.[Websters]. 3. To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.[Websters]. 4. To cackle as a goose.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: caking, caked, cakes, caker, cakers, cakingly and cakedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CAKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CAKING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Chemical Industry | 1: Gathering of sanding dust into solid cakes sticking to sand paper. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Settling of pigment particles of a paint into a compact mass which is not easily redispersed by stirring. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: CAKING
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Caking coal | See Coal. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: CAKING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Caking coal | Mining | Coal that softens and agglomerates on heating and after volatile matter has been driven off at high temperatures; produces a hard gray cellular mass of coke. All caking coals are not good coking coals. See also: coking coal. (references) | |
| Caking index | Mining | A laboratory method of indicating the degree of caking, coking, or binding together of a coal when a sample is heated in a prescribed manner. Syn: agglutinating power. (references) | |
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